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Paul and the Heritage of Israel: Paul’s Claim upon Israel’s Legacy in Luke and Acts in the Light of the Pauline Letters is unavailable, but you can change that!

As a sequel to the hugely successful Jesus and the Heritage of Israel, this book brings together fourteen internationally acclaimed scholars in antiquities studies and experts on Paul and Luke. The contributors provoke new approaches to the troubled relation of the Lukan Paul by re-configuring the figure and impact of Paul upon nascent Christianity. Two leading questions serve as the basis of...

The terminological contacts with his letters, one remembers, are not numerous. Besides the terms already noted,31 several Pauline theological formulae arise during Peter’s discourse with Cornelius (10:34b–35, 43b) concerning the impartial God and the pardon granted by faith in Christ, and in Paul’s homily at Antioch of Pisidia (13:38b–39) concerning the Law’s incapacity to save.32 Pauline formulae are thus present, but without the wording of the letters; this is too meagre to speak of intertextuality.
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